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Was stress the pilot would have phoned in. all the things point to the pilot. i will give you the last word. >> well, im just saying that there is not enough factual information at this point to draw any conclusions and so unfortunately everything remains on the table. >> all right. im being sherlock holmes here. my detuckive -- deduckive deductive. >> i have never seen a mystery like this in aviation. the most important thing to me in aviation safety is steps are taken at the civil aviation to ...

Have phoned in. all the things point to the pilot. i will give you the last word. >> well, im just saying that there is not enough factual information at this point to draw any conclusions and so unfortunately everything remains on the table. >> all right. im being sherlock holmes here. my detuckive -- deduckive deductive. >> i have never seen a mystery like this in aviation. the most important thing to me in aviation safety is steps are taken at the civil aviation to prevent something like in t...

Hes the main suspect. sometimes i want is the obvious suspect. >> lets go back to statistics of accidents. in about 75% of the time weather, mechanical or anything else, the ntsb, our ntsb does find pilot mistake or pilot error even in a non-criminal case. the focus is always on the pilot whether its a crash, malfunction or weather-related crash. often the pilot gets cited for many things. in a criminal investigation you have to look at the pilot. i worked on the 9/11 cases for 11 years until th...

What about the massive depth of the indian ocean? more than 15,000 feet in some parts. and will the black boxes help? in the crash of an air france jet, a mini sub traveled thousands of feet under water to pull up the boxes which revealed a technical problem and pilot error as the cause of the crash. but reaching those boxes will be helped if any debris can be spotted from the air. the first clues are likely debris, which can be found, find where the crew may be. >> first crews are likely debris...

Theres a very good chance this airliner suffered some type of catastrophic event. >> theres only one incident with fatalities and that was in san francisco and declared pilot error. >> theres no disagreement that boeing makes the best airplanes. >> the level of redundancy is three, four times in some places. >> theres no disagreeing with that. but like i said earlier, i mean, we have seen so much smoke and mirrors, so many places that weve been led that are actually not verified. i mean, even th...

Management computer. >> someone has to go back eight feet behind the cockpit, open up something, get down into the belly of the plane to do that? >> right, if you wanted to pull the circuit breakers on acars. you cant turn the acars off from the cockpit. its always operating. its also in a passive state sending a signal. >> how difficult is it to land that plane? this is relative to the fact this last ping, tom, we hear came at 8:11 in the morning. thats daylight. presumably its a difficult plan...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...

Or any part of the world for that matter, it would be the 777. its an exceptionally reliable airplane. >> secondly, a mechanical failure would have had to have been so catastrophic it took out all communication, but apparently did not cause the plane to break up in flight. theory four, human effort. its the leading cause of commercial airline accidents responsible for up to 80% of crashes. but the errors are often compounded by external problems like weather or technical issues. the last time a ...